The Assassin (2015)
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The Assassin (2015)

Genre
Action, Drama
Release Date
October 16, 2015
Studio
Well Go USA
Official Site
http://wellgousa.com/theatrical/the-assassin
Genre
Action, Drama
Release Date
October 16, 2015
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
104 minute(s)
Production Budget
-
Studio
Well Go USA
Official Site
http://wellgousa.com/theatrical/the-assassin
Director
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Producer
Wen-Ying Huang
Screenwriter
Chu T'ien-Wen
Starring
  • Shu Qi as Nie Yinniang
  • Chang Chen
  • Satoshi Tsumabuki

Back with his first film in 8 years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year's Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring "The Assassin" - a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film.

The story is simple, if elusive - in 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be.

She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, "The Assassin" is a martial arts film like none made before it.